Humboldt Bronco families react to truck driver being granted day parole
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Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the April 6, 2018, collision that killed 16 people and injured 13.
Families of those killed in the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash are sharing their thoughts the day after the truck driver responsible for the crash was granted day parole.
On Wednesday, the Parole Board of Canada granted Jaskirat Singh Sidhu day parole for six months. Sidhu will get full parole after those six months if he follows all conditions, including not contacting the families of the victims.
Sidhu was sentenced to eight years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the April 6, 2018, collision that killed 16 people and injured 13.
Russell Herold, father of 16-year-old Adam Herold who was killed in the crash, was upset by the parole board’s decision.
“I would never trust him to drive a car again to be honest with you,” Herold told Global News.
“He’s still in jail technically, but I guess my hope is the day he gets full parole, the immigration board is waiting to take him onto a plane and he’s gone, forever out of our eyes so (we) can begin to forget about him.”
Sidhu is awaiting a decision from the Immigration Board of Canada if he will be deported or not. Sidhu was a permanent resident at the time of the crash.
In Canada, a criminal conviction that carries a sentence of more than six months makes a permanent resident ineligible to stay in the country.
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